Arsenic concentrations were measured in annual rings, pith, bark, and leaves of five tree species (four genera) from a site highly contaminated with As in Vineland, New Jersey, and two nearby uncontaminated areas. The highest As concentrations were found in bark (0.68+/-0.89 mg/kg, n=16) and leaves (1.9+/-1.8 mg/kg, n=4) from the contaminated area. Tree-ring As levels from the contaminated area...

Working in close collaboration with a number of archaeologists and other scientists, Douglass went on to found the world's first center for dendrochronological analysis, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) at the University of Arizona. Today the lab is still going strong and is just one of dozens of facilities around the world dedicated to the analysis of tree rings not just as a dating...

Previously reported dendrochemical data showed temporal variability in concentration of tungsten (W) and cobalt (Co) in tree rings of Fallon, Nevada, US. Criticism of this work questioned the use of the Mann-Whitney test for determining change in element concentrations. Here, we demonstrate that Mann-Whitney is appropriate for comparing background element concentrations to possibly elevated con...

We present MTVis, a multi-touch interactive tree visualization system. The multi-touch interface display hardware is built using the LED-LP technology, and the tree layout is based on RINGS, but enhanced with multitouch interactions. We describe the features of the system, and how the multi-touch interface enhances the user’s experience in exploring the tree data structure. In particular, the m...

introduction extreme floods, hyperconcentrated and debris flows are common natural hazards in the basins which located in the northern slops of alborz mountain range (iranian north system). flood occurrence in golestan national park in 2001, 2002 and 2005( hosseinzadeh and jahadi toroghi 2012), yearly flash floods in masuleh catchment( rezaei, 2009), large flood in neka basin in 1999(poorahmad ...

Tree rings are widely considered to be a reliable proxy record of variations in climate and soil moisture. Here, using data from the Midwest United States (US), we provide documentation of a deteriorating relationship between radial tree growth and drought that is consistent across multiple species and locations. We find that traditional methods for drought reconstructions produce models that h...

let $r$ be a reversible ring which is $alpha$-compatible for an endomorphism $alpha$ of $r$ and $f(x)=a_0+a_1x+cdots+a_nx^n$ be a nonzero skew polynomial in $r[x;alpha]$. it is proved that if there exists a nonzero skew polynomial $g(x)=b_0+b_1x+cdots+b_mx^m$ in $r[x;alpha]$ such that $g(x)f(x)=c$ is a constant in $r$, then $b_0a_0=c$ and there exist nonzero elements $a$ and $r$ in $r$ such tha...

we observe some new characterizations of $n$-presented modules. using the concepts of $(n,0)$-injectivity and $(n,0)$-flatness of modules, we also present some characterizations of right $n$-coherent rings, right $n$-hereditary rings, and right $n$-regular rings.

in this paper, we introduce the concept of the   generalized aip-rings as a generalization of the generalized quasi-   baer rings   and generalized p.p.-rings. we show that the class of the generalized aip-rings is closed under direct products and morita invariance. we also characterize the 2-by-2 formal upper triangular matrix rings of this new class of rings. finally, we provide sever...

Herbivores can alter plant physiology through the induction of abnormal wood formation. Feeding by some insects induces the formation of false rings, a band of thick-walled latewood cells within the earlywood portion of the tree ring that reduces water transport. Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae Annand) and elongate hemlock scale (Fiorinia externa Ferris) are invasive insects that both f...